Improvement in corn-shellers



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SAMUEL P. ROSS, OF PITTSBURG, AND NlKLAUS HALLER, OF ALLE GHENY ClTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 94,444, dated August- 31, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-SHBLLERS.

The Schedule referred-to in. these Letters Patent and making part Of the n e- To all whom it may concern Wc, SAMUEL P. ROSS, of Pittsburg, and N IKLAUS HALLER, of Allegheny City, Allegheny county, Penn: sylvania, having invented new and useful Improvements in Corn-Shellers, do hereby declare that we believe that we are the originators or inventors of the same, and that the following is a full and accurate description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, all of which is a part of this specification.

To enable others to make use of our invention, we will proceed to describe its construction, and operation of its parts and combination.

- Figure 1 is a face view.

Figure 2 is a side view.

A A of fig. 1, represent two wooden handles.

a. a, of fig. 1, represent an iron rod or pin, passing through the centre of the wooden handles A A their entire length. i

B B, ofv fig. 1, represent the two sheller-heads, or

cob-jaws, with the oblique flanges on inside, terminating in hooks.

g g, of fig. 2, represent the stems, which are a continuation of the casting from the cob-jaws B B to the hinge A of fig. 2.

' .1 2 3, of fig. 1, represent'the oblique flanges of col)- jaws, terminating in hooks, and interlacing each other after the manner of the fingers of each hand, being partly crooked, and passing between each other alternately.

O O, of fig. 1, represent a curved spring, passing around the hinge A, of fig. 2, and down the sides'of stems g and g to near cob-jaws B and B.

O, of fig. 1, represents a slot in stems.

0? and O, of fig. 1, represent holes in each end of curved spring.

B and B, of figs. 1 and 2, represent obliquely-flanged and serrated shelling-hooks.

D and D, of fig. 1, represent the hollowed orrecessed sides of stems g and g.

0, of fig. 2, represents the pin or rivet passing throughthe two ends of curved spring.

A, of fig. 2, represents hinge-flanges joining the. stems g'and g. v

A, of fig. 2, represents hole through hinge-flange.

The nature of our improvements consist in making hand-sheller for corn more convenient and more effective.

The mode of constructing, and manner of operating it with our improvements, are as follows, to wit:

Two sheller-castings, with stems and cob-jaws B 9 and B y, are taken and joined together at the hinge A, and the pin a a, having been put through the hole A, the wooden handles A A are driven on tightly over the pin, until they meet the hinge on each side. The two wooden handles and the two sheller-castings are now joined together.

The curved spring 0 G is then thrown around the hinge, and passed down the hollowed or recessed sides of the stems g and g, until the holes C and O in each end of spring, are brought opposite to the slots, or elongated holes 0, in stems. Then the pin, or rivet (his passed both through the holes in spring and through slots in stems, and being riveted, or otherwise made fast on the outside of the curved spring, thus holding them. to their proper andrelative places.

The sheller being thus completed, the size, form, and arrangement of the various improvements may be varied to suit the skill, taste, and judgment of the mechanic.

Therefore, we wish it clearly understood that we do not confine ourselves to a single form, size, or arrangement of the parts described as improvements.

Having thus described the various parts of the ma.-

chine, and its construction, we proceed to set forth what we claim as our improvements.

\Ve claim- 1. The curved spring 0 G.

2; Also, the slot O in the stems g and g, through which the pin (3 passes.

3. Also, the serrating of the oblique flanges in the cob-jaws, that is, serrating one or morcof the flanges with ope or more teeth.

4. And further, we'do not claim the interlocking of the shelling-fingers, but we do claim terminating them 

